2021 Year in Exploration
2021 Stats
- 65 locations explored
- 156,419 views to the site
- 1285 hours of my movies watched on YouTube
- 3 TV interviews for WFSB
- 1 podcast on Backyard Road Trips
- Several hundred pages delisted from Google Search and a few hundred brought back
The story of ExploreCT’s 2021 falls into two halves. The first half was firing on all cylinders exploring new places, updating the site, writing newsletters, making movies, and befriending new people. The second half saw the site be delisted by Google for not loading fast enough according to their updated ‘Core Web Vitals’ and a resulting massive drop in traffic. It was technical to fix and I don’t think fully resolved but Google’s algorithms have made connections back to my site.
Recommended Hikes of the Year
- Waramaug’s Overlook
- Finishing the Narragansett Trail
- Scantic River Powder Hollow ruins
Blog Summaries
- Newsletter exploring the history of surveying Connecticut
Hiking
Boating/Fishing
- Bigelow Hollow
- Mystic River
